Studer-Joho A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-7720-5617-8
Verlag: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 142, 306 Seiten

Reihe: Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA)

While quill and ink were the writing implements of choice in the Anglo-Saxon scriptorium, other colouring and non-colouring writing implements were in active use, too. The stylus, among them, was used on an everyday basis both for taking notes in wax tablets and for several vital steps in the creation of manuscripts. Occasionally, the stylus or perhaps even small knives were used for writing short notes that were scratched in the parchment surface without ink. One particular type of such notes encountered in manuscripts are dry-point glosses, i.e. short explanatory remarks that provide a translation or a clue for a lexical or syntactic difficulty of the Latin text. The present study provides a comprehensive overview of the known corpus of dry-point glosses in Old English by cataloguing the 34 manuscripts that are currently known to contain such glosses. A first general descriptive analysis of the corpus of Old English dry-point glosses is provided and their difficult visual appearance is discussed with respect to the theoretical and practical implications for their future study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Studer-Joho, Dieter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;12
2;1. Introduction;14
3;2. Terminology and Scope;18
3.1;2.1 Vernacular Glossing in Anglo-Saxon England;18
3.1.1;2.1.1 Additions in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts;18
3.1.2;2.1.2 Types of Old English Glosses;19
3.1.3;2.1.3 The Form of Occasional Glosses in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts;22
3.2;2.2 Writing without Ink in Anglo-Saxon England;23
3.2.1;2.2.1 Stylus and Wax Tablets in Britain;23
3.2.2;2.2.2 Dry-Point Writing in Medieval Manuscripts;26
3.2.3;2.2.3 Deformational Writing Outside the Manuscript Context;29
3.2.4;2.2.4 Ink, Pencil, Dry-Point;31
3.3;2.3 Excluded Dry-Point Material from Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts;38
3.3.1;2.3.1 Dry-Point “Marks” and Dry-Point “Doodles”;38
3.3.2;2.3.2 Dry-Point Names and Non-Gloss Entries;39
3.3.3;2.3.3 Dry-Point Annotations to the “Old English Bede”;46
3.3.4;2.3.4 Dry-Point Glosses of Uncertain Linguistic Status;47
3.4;2.4 Non-English Dry-Point Glossing;51
3.4.1;2.4.1 Dry-Point Glossing in Latin;51
3.4.2;2.4.2 Dry-Point Glossing in Old High German;53
3.4.3;2.4.3 Dry-Point Glossing in Old Saxon;59
3.4.4;2.4.4 Dry-Point Glossing in Old Irish;59
3.4.5;2.4.5 Dry-Point Glossing in Old Slavonic;60
3.4.6;2.4.6 Dry-Point Glossing in East Asia;60
3.4.7;2.4.7 Dry-Point Writing in Post-Conquest England;61
4;3. On the History of the Study of Old English Dry-Point Glosses;64
4.1;3.1 Humphrey Wanley;64
4.2;3.2 Arthur Sampson Napier;67
4.3;3.3 Herbert Dean Meritt;70
4.4;3.4 Bernhard Bischoff and Josef Hofmann;72
4.5;3.5 Raymond Ian Page;73
4.6;3.6 Scott Gwara;76
4.7;3.7 Minor Contributions by Other Researchers;79
4.8;3.8 The Representation of Dry-Point Glosses in DOE and DOEC 2009;81
5;4. Rationale and Layout of the Catalogue;86
5.1;4.1 Rationale of the Catalogue;86
5.2;4.2 Material;86
5.3;4.3 Method;89
5.4;4.4 Layout of the Catalogue;91
5.5;4.5 [Consecutive number?/?Ker number] location, library pressmark;92
5.5.1;4.5.1 A) Manuscript;92
5.5.2;4.5.2 B) Glosses;94
6;5. A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses;96
7;6. Characterization of the Known Corpus of Old English Dry-Point Gloss Manuscripts;204
7.1;6.1 Numbers and Ratios;204
7.2;6.2 Origins of the Manuscripts;207
7.3;6.3 Dates of the Manuscripts;211
7.4;6.4 Contents of the Manuscript Parts Glossed in Dry-Point;214
7.4.1;6.4.1 Gospels;214
7.4.2;6.4.2 Patristic Literature;216
7.4.3;6.4.3 Sentential Literature;218
7.4.4;6.4.4 Christian Poetry;220
7.4.5;6.4.5 Canonical Literature;224
7.4.6;6.4.6 Monastic and Hagiographical Literature;224
7.4.7;6.4.7 Grammatical Treatises and Colloquies;226
7.4.8;6.4.8 Historical Writing;228
7.5;6.5 Times and Places at Which Dry-Point Glossing May Have Been Practised;229
7.6;6.6 Co-Occurrence with Vernacular Ink Glosses;238
7.7;6.7 Co-Occurrence with Other Vernaculars;241
7.7.1;6.7.1 Co-Occurrence with Old High German Dry-Point Glosses;241
7.7.2;6.7.2 Co-Occurrence with Celtic Dry-Point Glosses;244
7.7.3;6.7.3 Co-Occurrence with an Old French Dry-Point Gloss?;245
7.8;6.8 Co-Occurrence with Construe Marks;246
8;7. Summary and Outlook;248
8.1;7.1 Identifying Further Dry-Point Glosses and Dry-Point Gloss Manuscripts;248
8.2;7.2 New Approaches to Dry-Point Glosses;254
8.2.1;7.2.1 Digitally Assisted Decipherment of Dry-Point Glosses;254
8.2.2;7.2.2 Dry-Point Glosses and Digital Humanities;258
8.3;7.3 Desiderata;260
8.3.1;7.3.1 A Corpus of Old English Glosses?;261
8.3.2;7.3.2 A Corpus of Old English Glosses!;264
8.3.3;7.3.3 An Update of Ker’s Catalogue;267
8.3.4;7.3.4 An Indexed Bibliography of Old English Gloss Studies;269
8.4;7.4 Concluding Remarks;270
9;8. Abbreviations and Bibliography;274
9.1;8.1 Abbreviations;274
9.2;8.2 Abbreviated References;274
9.3;8.3 Bibliography;276
9.4;8.4 Index of Manuscripts;301
9.5;8.5 General Index;305

Über Autor(innen)

Dieter Studer-Joho ist Archivleiter des Phonogrammarchivs der Universität Zürich.